Prepare a worksheet using the following text. Have the students follow the directions listed below. To conclude the activity, call on volunteers to share any part of the activity or discussion with the entire class.

Directions: Read the following quotations on prayer. Start the quotation that you find most meaningful. Complete the sentences below. Share them with a partner.

My heart is restless, Lord, until it rests in you.

—St. Augustine

Prayer is wine which makes glad the heart of all.

—St. Bernard

The whole world is asleep, and God, so full of goodness, so great, so worthy of all praise, no one is thinking of him! See, nature praises God, and we . . . who ought to praise God, sleep! Let us to and wake up the universe and sing God’s praises.

—St. Mariam Baourady

Prayer does not change God, but changes the one who prays.

—Soren Kierkegaard

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of humankind does not depend on material success; nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. Neither does it depend on arms and human industries, but on Jesus alone.

—St. Frances Cabrini

I pray when . . .

A time prayer helped me was when . . .